The BEST Bexleyheath team entered for the Nktc Team Trial 2003 is:Rob Fleet ,Gary Roberts & Gary Stephen.

Just got back from the Nktc endurance team trial at Horsmonden, endurance was an understatement having had to ride 14 sections flat out on the throttle stop and dipping the clutch every now and then just to give the piston a break which all turned out by the last lap bloody cramp setting into the wrists and unable to operate the clutch properly anyway.

You could say it was quite a hard day due to the bad weather over the past few days and the wet conditions pushed all riders to there limits both in skill and fitness but most managed to make it to the finishing post..'JUST' with just a handful of riders retiring early muttering to themselves 'sod this im off down the pub!!! Having rode the first lap like I was pissed and fallen off more times then a rodeo rider, no sorry let me rephrase that `like Cliff on a good day` I was thinking the pub was a damn fine idea, but since this was a team effort I didn't want to let the two Gazza`s down so doing a bit of fine tuning in the tyre pressure department I attempted another gruelling lap.

Sections one to five were set out just right for the conditions and I managed to raise a smile when cleaning my first section and that was section one after having rode from section 6 to 14 first and 3in virtually every section. I did see section four being tackled by Jamie Burroughs who wasn't having to good a time with the log at the bottom and was exchanging a few choice words with his minder (his old man) having stalled the Beta on the tight turn, another 'one of them pirouette up your backside turns' but this was in thick mud and no grip what so ever. The drop in for the blues was quite hairy having to slide down the steep bank and head butting the tree on the way through whilst soiling your pants then turning right across a camber, this caught me out on lap two and three which was most annoying having cleaned that part of the section on the first lap when it was the most slippery.

Six was ni on impossible with a tight turn left up the bank from no run up was causing all sorts of problems but my eagle eyes found a route around the back of some trees which didn't really help anyway since you had to foot most of the section just to get out the ends cards. I don't think I see one single rider loose less then a three on all four routes. Ron Stevens section was another one that could have done with easing since I don't see much point in revving the nuts off the bike just to receive a three at the end of the ends cards, after dropping down the bank and unwrapping yourself from the two trees at the bottom you had to foot to drag your bike which by now was covered in two tons of mud back up the bank to the left and across a tricky little camber which had plenty of grip if you had managed to get that far. Normally I see a few riders who do have a good ride in the wet but for the first time I was stumped!!! I didn't see anyone having a good ride mostly people falling on there arses is what I saw and physically abusing there bikes in frustration. Personally I thought it was a bloody good event and loved almost every minute, my yam engine now has a lovely little ring to it after its no mercy slaughtering, if you tap along it sounds like a really bad instrumental on a Bee Gees track or Cliffs brain cell engaging drive:):)

Thanks to all the organisers who made this event happen good job done in impossible conditions. See all our club members at the next club trial on Sunday 21st at Wainscot where I will be riding with a very large hangover